. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 296 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. April 20, 190S. tied on a low plum-bush. I let the queen crawl into the swarm, which wae a fine, large one. I then got a hive and placed it on a stool-chair which I had covered with a canvas. I then arranged the frames against the sides, allowing the lower part of the swarm to come between the frames. I gave the limb a quick blow with an ax, and down they fell almost all into the hive, and the rest on the canvas. I quickly placed the hive-canvas over the seething mass, and to my delight saw those on the canvas soon going
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 296 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. April 20, 190S. tied on a low plum-bush. I let the queen crawl into the swarm, which wae a fine, large one. I then got a hive and placed it on a stool-chair which I had covered with a canvas. I then arranged the frames against the sides, allowing the lower part of the swarm to come between the frames. I gave the limb a quick blow with an ax, and down they fell almost all into the hive, and the rest on the canvas. I quickly placed the hive-canvas over the seething mass, and to my delight saw those on the canvas soon going toward the hive. With a weed I agitated them, and was glad to to see almost all going into the hive. I gently lifted the frames in place without removing the canvas, put the cover on, and my swarm was hived. So intent had I been with my work that my husband had re- turned, slipped up, and had been a silent witness of my performance, so when I finished and looked up there he was grinning at me from behind the plum-bush. And said, " Bravo! Well done!" Well, in an hour my bees were workingasthough they had always lived there. I was interested, and watched them a great deal. We examined them in 10 days, and I was delighted to find such lovely sheets of well-filled comb, but found no eggs or brood. In a few days we looked again, but still no brood. Finally the bees began to dwindle, and I decided they must have a new queen. The old clipped queen was there all the time. How I disliked to take out the mother of so fine a swarm and kill her! My husband decided to put her in his observatory hive and kept her for some time. We gave the bees a sheet of comb with brood and eggs from which they reared a fine queen, built up, and went into winter quar- ters in good condition. My clipped queen never, to our knowledge, laid an egg after she came forth with the swarm. She left the parent hive well-filled with brood and eggs. She was one year old. Although small, she was considered one
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